... "What about the defendants, what about the awesome legal expenses they have incurred to protect themselves from an administration with an agenda that has practically unlimited resources to bring to bear against them, what about the smears against people’s names and damages done to their reputations? What about derailed careers, what about the living hell they—and their families—have gone through for two years…?" ...

"Want to join a beat-up old ex-Navy SEAL, ocean sailor and book writer on a real-world covert cyber operation? I knew you did. So here’s the deal."

"The idea is a national clandestine psyop, using my first novel as a vehicle. On next Thursday, March 1, Enemies Foreign And Domestic will be put into Amazon Kindle’s free library, for a period of up to five days."

"Where EFAD’s free download promotion will be different from those of the thousands ... currently offered on Kindle, is that I’m simultaneously coordinating a mass plan to ensure that Operation EFAD goes hyper-viral on all constitutionally-oriented, freedom-loving, and Second Amendment websites and blogs at the same time." ...

"I doubt the District of Columbia City Council knew what was in store for them when Emily Miller started her path towards gun ownership. She just wanted a handgun for protection and they made it incredibly hard. Little did they realize that the roadblocks that they had erected to prevent gun ownership in the District would create such an attractive and effective spokesperson for gun rights." ...

"Two high-profile shootings in two days – one at an elementary school near Bremerton and the other along a state highway that left a State Trooper dead – have given anti-gunners the launch pad they invariably look for to demand stronger gun laws."

"KOMO Radio’s Ken Schram, with whom this writer chatted live during the noon hour Thursday, wants to hold the parents of the 9-year-old suspect in the school shooting responsible for his bringing a gun to school. For the record, this column doesn't think Schram is a dedicated anti-gunner, but he wants to mandate that everyone who purchases a handgun also be required by law to purchase a gun safe. That was before anyone knew where the youngster actually got the gun ..." ...

"In American socio-political discourse today, there are few charges more damaging than, 'That's racist!' (or, 'You are racist!'). That in itself is not a bad thing--bigots should be pilloried and shunned. The problem is that the very effectiveness of that particular rhetorical weapon is enough to present a temptation to use it even where no plausible case for racism exists."

"This sometimes manifests itself in odd ways. Consider, for example, a developmental Microsoft smart phone app designed to help users avoid high crime areas. According to a CBS News report, that is seen by some to be 'racist':" ...-------

Submitter's Note: Last time someone called me a racist I said "Yeah, I know. But I'm working on it." Really took the wind out of their sails.

"For decades now, gun control advocates have been trying to convince people that the nation needs stricter gun laws, that more guns means more crime. Well, an op-ed on Forbes.com says it is time to put that 'myth' to rest." ...

There are logical arguments against allowing college students to exercise their natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right to carry a concealed weapon on campus. Before firing-up the hate-mail generator please, note that I said logical not correct. If your starting premise is flawed then all the logical reasoning in the world won’t provide a correct conclusion. As such, from the Eastern Illinois University Daily Eastern News we hear . . .

"Once upon a time, I was married. I married a woman who’d grown up on both a ranch and a farm and she was comfortable with guns. In fact, she was the one that talked first about getting her CHL, which got me interested in the whole idea of guns for self defense. What do you do, when you become interested in a subject about which you know next-to-nothing? I can’t speak for anybody else, but the first thing I do is read – I read everything I can get my hands on ... And when we’re talking about a subject that involves the possibility of inflicting bodily harm if not used as directed, the last thing I want to do is to go off half-cocked, as it were. Which brings me to the subject of a good ol’ fashioned dove hunt, Texas Style . . ." ...

"Like an iPhone, or a Sony flat screen TV, or even a new Dodge Challenger, the Kimber Solo Carry is an attractive contribution to the modern mechanical world. It’s plain meets flashy. Square meets round. Old meets new. ..." ...

"Can I officially call a time out on perfectly good rifles being turned into useless pistols?"

"Pistol-caliber carbines may not be the panacea to your shooting needs, but TTAG has sponsored a lively and at times spirited debate about them. We’ve wrung-out and written-up a passel of them: the Kel Tec Sub2000, Henry Big Boy, Calico M-900 , Marlin 1894C, FN PS-90, and the Just Right 9mm Carbine." ...

"At [CPAC] earlier this month, I had the opportunity to speak with David Keene, president of the [NRA]. As an Air Force veteran myself, I was specifically interested in learning more about the NRA's support of an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2011."

"What the NRA describes as a 'pro-Second Amendment provision' is legislation that prohibits the Defense Department from 'collecting or recording any information relating to the otherwise lawful acquisition, possession, ownership, carrying, or other use of a privately owned firearm.' In short, the amendment, signed into law ... in January 2011, bars commanders from even questioning their troops about privately-owned firearms kept off-base." ...

"Takiema Reynolds and Lawrence Gillman, of Queens, NY, are proud that their five-year-old daughter is learning how to spell at school."

"'She's learning how to spell play, park and school and stuff like that,' Reynolds told local reporters."

"But when they found out that their daughter's kindergarten teacher had assigned homework that included the words 'gun' and 'rob,' they became outraged."

"'I looked at it and I seen the word 'gun' on it. The first thing I thought was 'oh no no no,' I don't want you reading it, I don't want you spelling it. I don't even want you looking at the picture," Gillman explained to reporters." ...

"It’s really amazing how the now Republican controlled Virginia General Assembly works. For every step the General Assembly takes forward it takes two backward. Look at recent examples of how it seems the conservative state senators and delegates have their priorities backwards."

"The Richmond Times carried the following story Feb.13. 'As expected, the Virginia Senate today approved legislation that would repeal the nearly 20-year-old law prohibiting the purchase of more than one handgun a month.'" ...

"Glendale Community College President Irene Kovala said, 'In a nutshell, we are not in favor of the bill.'"

"The bill she was talking about is Arizona Senate Bill 1474, which would allow students to take guns to university campuses. All of the institutions of higher learning in Arizona have voiced opposition."

"Kovala joined her colleagues in the Maricopa County Community College District, saying, 'Glendale Community College first and foremost is a learning environment where student success is fostered and cultivated. More than 32,000 students attend day, evening or weekend classes at one of our two campuses or multiple sites." ...

"I am amazed at the hullabaloo over the Second Amendment. Anyone over, say, the age of 20 knows the issue of guns was never heard or thought of when we were growing up. Everyone was safe. Now, guns are being brought up from Mexico and, it would seem, everyone should have one. Why? 'We have Second Amendment rights.'"

"If any amendment has become passé and outdated, it is that one. ..." ...-------

Submitter's Note: Good thing the Founders foresaw that problem and provided a way to change the Constitution.Of course, some of us believe that the right protected by the Second Amendment is independent of the Constitution.And remember, if the rule of law no longer protects gun-nuts it no longer protects anti-gun-nuts.Not threatenin', just sayin'.

"An IN store clerk drew a gun on a man who came into the store, demanded money and refused to leave. The man was later arrested and it is suspected in numerous robberies and thefts committed that night." ...

"The Des Moines Register ran a story today that highlights the need for a strong 'Stand Your Ground' law. Not just in Iowa ... but anywhere in the country that the freedoms and liberties of citizens who are going about their day-to-day activities are expected to be more important than those of citizens who have little regard for the life and health of others ..."

"In their story, the Register details the circumstances around a man, Jay Rodney Lewis, who was put in jail and stayed there for 112 days until his trial. He was unable to make bond, so he had to wait for his trial date in jail. During that time, he lost everything he had. He lost his job, he was evicted from his apartment, and nearly all of his possessions were seized and sold." ...

"In news that will surprise almost no one, Strafford County attorney Tom Veraldi has decided that Dennis Fleming won’t have to face a felony charge after firing a warning shot and holding a burglar at gunpoint until police arrived earlier this week. ... We’re guessing the constantly ringing phones and overloaded email inbox Veraldi’s no doubt been contending with had something to do with his decision."

... "I've said it before and I'll say it again, while some people have exaggerated what I wrote, even without attribution, as far as what I wrote, I stand by my sources."

"As another long-time student of the politics of gun-control and the GOP told me, 'Look, Mike, I don't have your sources, but a second-grader could figure out two simple facts. First, that the GOP leadership has been intimately involved with decisions on the focus, direction and speed of the Issa committee's investigation from the very beginning. They wouldn't be 'leadership' if they weren't ... Second, the investigation has not vigorously pursued all the clues that it has itself admitted that it had in the various letters to Holder, etc. ...'" ...

"Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did not rule out the possibility that the [ATF] misled her department about the intent of Operation Fast & Furious to put guns in the hands of Mexican drug cartels."

"'I hope they did not,' Secretary Napolitano responded to Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), who asked whether DHS or the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent assigned to assist ATF had been misled. The Secretary's response raises the question of whether one U.S. Government agency, in this case Attorney General Eric Holder's Department of Justice, misled another." ...

"California Republican Elizabeth Emken, who is challenging 20-year incumbent Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein for her seat in November, told The Daily Caller that her opponent is 'protecting Washington insiders' with regard to Operation Fast and Furious."

"'Rather than Feinstein trumpeting her own gun control agenda here, she should be working to the get the truth out to the American public,' Emken said in a phone interview. ..." ...

"I am always amazed at how far career politicians will go to test the bounds of their dignity when confronted with the simple question, 'where do you stand on the Second Amendment?'"

"More often than not, they will provide an abstract answer ... Nothing is more disingenuous than a politician with manicured hands standing in a duck blind ..."

"I believe that an honest man will never have to worry about remembering what he has said or who he said it to. I believe that the Second Amendment is crystal clear, 'The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'"

"The Second Amendment is a fail-safe woven into the fabric of our Constitution that ensures the God given rights and freedoms upon which this country was built. ..." ...

"Under proposed House Bill 981, a piece of legislation that co-sponsor Rep. Sean Jerguson, R-Holly Springs, is confident will pass, Georgians would have the right to carry concealed weapons in some traditionally banned places." ...-------

H/t to David Codrea who notes: "They already have that right--no bill could award it or take it away. It's just that some presumptuous usurpers who were initially hired with the idea that they'd be servants have decided they have the authority to recognize it--or not."

"[The] Chicago Mayor ... is reportedly turning up the heat on his anti-gun crusade. Described by some in the media as a bully ... it would not be a stretch to presume that he would resort to bullying Illinois lawmakers into passing several bills that should be considered anathema to our nation’s long history of promoting freedom for its citizens. ... House Bill 5167 ... seeks to impose a two percent tax on firearm ammunition purchases. House Bill 5831 ... would implement a statewide handgun registry scheme. These bills can best be described as attempts to use punitive taxes and unwarranted bureaucratic fees to discourage the law-abiding residents of Illinois from exercising their rights protected under the Second Amendment." ...

"Today, the Minnesota Senate passed House Bill 1467 by a 40 to 23 vote. This important reform legislation, sponsored by state Senator Gretchen Hoffman (R-10) and state Representative Tony Cornish (R-24B), will now be sent back to the state House of Representatives for its concurrence, before being sent to Governor Mark Dayton for his consideration. The House vote on concurrence is expected to take place this Monday, February 27." ...

"A self-defense bill supporters argue simply expands the ground on which good people can defend themselves and critics depict as a legal invitation to summary executions passed the Senate today (Feb. 23)." ...-------

Submitter's Note: Didn't they talk about summary executions when Florida passed theirs? And when Colorado passed theirs? And when North Carolina passed theirs? And when Arizona and Ohio and Kentucky and Pennsylvania and . . .

"The Canadian Parliament has repealed the Long Gun Registry, as reported in the National Review by John Lott and Gary Mauser in an article published February 20, 2012 entitled Death of a Long-Gun Registry. The passage of the repeal represents a small victory for gun owners, and a small set back for the gun grabbers. But left in place are all the goofy laws that dictate which weapons one may own. ..." ...

"In 2008, after hearing a case challenging the restrictive gun laws in Washington, D.C., the Supreme Court ordered local officials to make it possible for law-abiding citizens to own a gun."

"It was a landmark Second Amendment win for gun rights advocates, but there is growing disagreement about what's happened in the wake of that ruling from the nation's highest court."

"Emily Miller, a senior opinion editor at The Washington Times and also a crime victim, decided to get a gun following the Supreme Court's decision, but says she had no idea how 'frustrating' it would be." ...

"Last week, we alerted you to a radical anti-gun nominee President Obama named to the federal bench, Jesse Furman."

"To no one’s surprise, Furman is cut from the same judicial cloth as other Obama nominees such as Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan."

"For instance, in an article published a number of years ago—but from which Furman has not distanced himself—he writes that: 'Probably the best explanation for the amount of violent crime in the United States is its fascination with guns.'" ...

"The city of Oakland has agreed to pay $43,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who said police officers used excessive force while arresting him."

"Jimmy Williams, then 50, said he was beaten by officers "without any just provocation or cause" in the parking lot of a Taco Bell restaurant at 35th Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard about 1:30 a.m. Oct. 25, 2009."

"Officers pepper-sprayed him and hit him with their batons while he was on the ground, according to Williams' suit filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco." ...

"Even before the Philadelphia jury returned to the courtroom, Sheila Tepper seemed to know the news would be bad."

"'Oh, please, oh, please, oh, please,' she said in a mantra punctuated by hyperventilated breaths while her husband, former Police Officer Frank Tepper, sat at the defense table a few feet away waiting for the verdict."

"Sheila Tepper's premonition was not wrong, and the courtroom erupted Thursday as she learned that her 45-year-old husband would spend the rest of his life in prison - the mandatory sentence after the jury found him guilty of first-degree murder for shooting a young Port Richmond neighbor after a 2009 melee outside the Teppers' house." ...

"When then-candidate for sheriff Scott Miller announced he would ease the application process for firearms carrying permits in Monterey County, Second Amendment advocates were thrilled."

"'If you just say you want to carry a gun for personal protection, we consider that good cause,' Miller said of a dramatic change in the office's long-standing requirement that applicants provide detailed justifications of why they're at risk and should be allowed to carry concealed guns in public."

"When Miller took office in 2011, websites frequented by gun owners buzzed with hopeful chatter that Monterey County had finally loosened up."

"The blood-alcohol level for a Macomb County sheriff’s sergeant was more than twice the legal limit when he crashed off-duty while driving in Macomb Township last month, according to Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham."

"Sgt. John Rollo, a 23-year veteran of the department, has been offered a plea in the case. The original charge is operating while intoxicated but Rollo can plead guilty to the lesser charge of impaired driving when he appears in 41A District Court in Shelby Township on March 26, according to court personnel." ...

"We are still waiting on the Senate to decide the fate of a National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Bill, one that would provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State."

"But in meantime, states are continuing to reach out to each other to forge state-to-state concealed carry reciprocity agreements (there’s no reason to wait on the Fed)." ...

"The Ohio Department of Natural Resources' (ODNR) Division of Wildlife is holding open house meetings in all five districts to discuss season dates and bag limits of game species, which will include Ohio's most popular game animal, the white-tailed deer. The meetings will be Saturday, March 3, from 12 – 3 p.m. and are open to the public."

"For many people the open houses are an opportunity to talk with the Division of Wildlife personnel. Sadly the attendance statistics reflect that most sportsmen stay home. Is this because Ohio's sportsmen think the Division is doing exactly what they desire? Or is it that Ohio's sportsmen are just too complacent to drive a few miles to the nearest open house? ..." ...

"Central Ohio sportsmen and women who are interested in becoming Hunter Education Instructors are encouraged to register for a training workshop according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife."

"The first workshop will take place on Saturday, March 10th and Sunday, March 11th, 2012. Training will be held at the Wildlife District One office located at 1500 Dublin Road in Columbus from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. each day." ...

"Thank you for your well-considered opinion regarding the gun debate in last Friday’s edition. I just wish to comment on your misinterpretation of some text in the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution."

"The Second Amendment was written back in the 1700s and must be interpreted in the vernacular of that era. It can only be truly understood by studying contemporaneous expositions on the subject written by the men who actually signed the document." ...

"'If 5 percent of the ducks could shoot back, you’re not going to go duck hunting,' said the Long Beach lawyer representing many Californians denied concealed weapons permits and, in his view, their constitutional right to self-defense."

"For decades, that argument has fallen flat in the courtroom. Judges have routinely held that denying permits to carry loaded firearms in public does not infringe on gun owners’ right to keep and bear arms."

"But now, some gun owners hope that courts will soon reverse course and find that they have a right to secretly tote their weapons in public. ..." ...

"After its long legal battle with Kitsap County ended with a judge’s order earlier this month to close the shooting range, Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club suspended shooting at the Seabeck range and last week filed its notice of appeal."

"Pierce County Superior Court Judge Susan J. Serko ruled Feb. 9 that the Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club is a public nuisance and ordered the club to not use its property as a shooting range until a Kitsap County conditional use permit is issued."

"The club plans to appeal the judge’s decision. It filed a notice of appeal last Friday in the Washington State Court of Appeals in Tacoma." ...

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